Pain Waste Poems

This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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Smog, not only in my streets but in my brain, my neural pathways

Holding weight.

Holding weight in my shoulders, in my neck in my core.

I run...

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Depression kills
Real lives.
Depression steals
Real lives.
Self-punishment
Is not the answer.
Self-fulfillment
Is the profound desire
To love oneself, to be proud,
To hope and to cry out loud
That happiness and success
Are...

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11/16/21


It's all good, even though my life ain't the best
Another day ready to face what's next
Against major threats
Got to put in work and break a...

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I Wept, And My Tears Were A Waste

True, life wept for eternity
I that was once too blind to see;
And later set to thus atone
For true,...

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A thought that is right but not pursued;
A call that is dialed but unanswered;
A voice that is heard but silenced;
A word that is yearned but...

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People make choices, there’s nothing you can do, you can beg and you can ask, until you’re lips, they turn blue, they can ruin a...

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Once a proud man
standing tall
with youth and
invincibility running
through his veins
a fragile boy hidden
in the closet of his heart
psychologically abused
tucked away in a corner
abandoned and forgotten
only...

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Sometimes
The truth
The bonds of trust 
Are the brush's with the sharpest needles 
The necessary evil 
The Cathedral foundations on which the Church was built 
Stand...

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Did I waste the life
That was given to me 
By the almighty
To have a vision and fortitude
And help others 
To develop the same and be...

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life is filled with pain 
disease is eating at my brain 
sorrow is all I know 
each moment feels so slow 
still, I keep on...

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Today began as many do
a waste of precious breath
Have I the strength to see it through
or is there any left

These struggles seem to multiply
within each...

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Its easy to grow bitter while being emptied out....
If this is my calling another verse, being read ? Tearing
Indifferent pages from another's, burning book: set...

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Such a short time we are here before we say goodbye.
Time is never wasted it just flies.
As the years go by and time fades away,...

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Words that go unread
Heart’s messengers bearing love
Fall with tears….wasted

Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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